he Internet makes it easy for information to traverse borders. This struck me recently when I was watching media coverage of the 'popular revolution' in Serbia. In a previous 'Open Location' column (Vol 29 No 2), I wrote about the way in which both Milosevic's regime and Western states have used the Internet as a medium in which to tell their version of the story. In the recent coverage, though, I noticed a more interesting phenomenon - as news was breaking from Serbia over radio and television, emails were coming out of the country, giving eyewitness accounts and reactions to the events. Some of these mails were being read out or displayed on the media, giving a low-level picture of what was happening and how people were feeling on the ground. This free flow of reports from inside a country in the middle of a popular revolution to overthrow an autocratic regime was quite startling (although when I began to research it, I learnt that the Internet has long been used by the opposition to the Milosevic regime in Serbia - see http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/5.04/ ff_belgrad_pr.html). Cyberspace is an exciting new frontier, and with this seeming freedom from the limitations
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